US1872454A - Game - Google Patents

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Aug. 16, p HQRN ET AL GAME Filed Oct. 16; 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l Il F 5 iNifiRs BY ATTORNEY 4 rl m 6 Aug. 16, 1932. R RN ET AL w 1,872,454

GAME

Filed Oct. 16, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 99 P0722 A rn 4 32 INVENTORS Z5 31 33 BY ATTORNEY J In Patented Aug. 16, 1932 PETER Bonn AND FRANK zrrr, orBRoox YN, NEW YORK GAME Application filed October 16, 193d Serial n. 489,092.

This invention relates to improvements in:

pastime games, and it is the principal ob ect of our invention to provide a device for skill fully catapulting projectiles, as for instance cone-shaped bodies of varying size having armored and weighted points into a plurality of openings in superposed plates, the openings in one plate allowing the passage of cones of smaller diameter to be caught in the openings of the lower plate and the openings in the other of said plates of a width tocatch and hold cone-shaped missiles of a larger diameter.

Another object of our invention is the provision of a device of this character including a novel and improved means for catapulting the cone-shaped projectiles towards andinto the openings ofthe plates.

A further object of our invention is the provision of a catapulting device the movable or rebounding plate of which is equipped on its upper face with suitable seats foraccommodating conehaped projectiles of. smaller and larger diameters.

A still further object of our invention is the provision of a means for catapulting projectiles including a movable plate normally held in elevated position by the coils of a looped wire engaging the underside of the plate and allowing a compression upon the depression of said plate, means being provided to hold the parts in their depressed position and allowing a sudden rebound of the plate upwardly under. the action of the 1 coils of said wire loop to catapult missiles towards a certain goal represented by perforated plates designated by numerals according to the value of the slots in which hits are to be made.

These and other objects and advantages of our invention, will become more fully known as the description thereof proceeds and will then be specifically defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspectiveview of a device constructed according to our in vention, with the cover removed.

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Fig. 2 is aitop plan view of a cone receiving box.

"- Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the box on line 3-3'of Figure 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross-section on Figure 2.- 1

Fig. 5 is a top plan view ofa box for catapulting the conesinto the receiving box,1Figure 2. V i

Fig. 6 is a-section on line 6-45 of Figure 5.

Fig. 7 is a perspective detail view of a spring used for catapulting the cones.

' Fig; 8 is a detail sectional view of telescoped cones used with my device.

As illustrated on the drawings, a box 10 of any suitable material and shape is closed on top by a removable cover 11 and is divided by the partition walls 12, 13, into a median large compartment and the end compartments 14C and 15-for the convenient storage of the paraphernalia of the game.

The central compartment of the box has line 44 of formed therein a compartment 16 closed at thet-op by means of a cover 17having formed therein a plurality of openings 18.

Upon cover 17 is removably arranged, a box 19 having an open bottom and a top plate 20 formed with a plurality of openings 21 which are considerably larger than the openings 18 formed in the cover 17 but in vertical alignment therewith. V V

The smaller openings in the cover 17 are designed to receive the armoredand weighted Joints and ends of comparatively small cones 22 and to support the same intermediate their ends by. engaging their outer mantle The larger openings-21 in top plate 20 are adapted to allow a free passage of the smallercones, and to receive the armored and weighted ends'or po1nts 23rof the larger cones'2 1 allowing their passage until their widening mantles are engaged bythe walls forming the openings 21 and to support the same in the position illustrated in Figure 1.

f It will be clearthat the openings can be designated by appropriate numbers X,'XX,

XXX,'etc., to indicate. the corresponding values of hits made by cones catapulted through and into the openings 21 and 18 The cones are catapulted into the respective holes by means of a device comprising a preferably square box 25, in which a plate 26 is hingedly secured at one end, as at 27, and normally kept in its elevated position by means of a spring member illustrated in Figure 7 forming a wire loop- 28, the connecting member of the branches of which is covered by a roller 29 engaging the lower face of plate 26 while the free ends of the wire are coiled intermediate their ends as indicated at 30 and 31 respectively and their outer extremities are guided and held in eyes 32 on a plate 33 attached to the bottom of the box.-

A flat wire 34 has its outer end' formed into a: handle 35 and extends through an opening in the end wall of the box into the same, i n'wliichit is bent, as at 36 and inclined upwardly having its end attachedto the inner face: oftheend wall of box 25, as at 37 the bend 86 normally engaging the upper endof a plate 26 to; hold the same in its depressed position;

The upper face of the plate 26 carriesnear its outer end; a smaller seat 38 for the lower ends of the smaller cones and a larger seat 39 for the lower ends of the larger cones. The operation'of our device willbeentirely clear from the above description by simultaneous reference-to the drawings, and 'it will be evident, that when oneof the smaller cones is placed on seat 38, and the plate 26 is depressed against the action of spring 28 compressing the same and held'in this position by means of the inner bend- 36 of wire 34 andthe wire is pulled outwardly by the handle 35, bend or shoulder 36'will give the end of the plate free and the spring will expand and catapultthe cone through one of the larger openings 21 tobe caught in the smaller openings 18 below if the player has used the necessary skill. The same is 'true with respect of catapulting the larger cones from seat 39-into openings 21. The compartments l4 and 15 are adapted forthe-storage of the'box 25 and the cones 22 and 241 conveniently telescoped.

It 1 Will be understood that we have described andshown: the preferred form of our device only as-oneexample ofthe many possible Ways to practically construct thesame,

and that we, may make such changes in the general arrangement ofthedevice'and in the construction of the minor details thereof as comeiwithin the scope of the appendedclaims withoutdepa-rture from'the spirit of our inventionand the principles involved. Having, thus described-our invention, What we claim as'new and desireto secure'byLet ters Patent-is:

1, In a-' device of'the class described,-a box, acover hingedly secured: in said box atone end, a wire loop includingcoils tendingtonormall y'hold-said cover in its elevatedzpo'sitiomal lowing a depression: of the same against: the action of said coils, a flat spring havingan inner shoulder engaging the front end of said cover to keep the same in its depressed position, and a handle allowing an outwardly directed pull on said spring to disengage its shoulder from said cover to rebound the same upwardly under the action of the expanding coils of the loop to catapult projectiles on said cover. 1 i.

2. In a game apparatus, a means for cata pulting objects of varying diameters onto a target, saidmeans' comprising a box a plate hingedly secured at one end within said box, a seat for the larger objects formed onsaid plate, at one end thereof, a seat for smaller objects concentrical to said first named seat, acoiled wirel'oop carrying roller on-"its connecting branch:

engaging the lower face of. said plate, a plate attached to the bottom of the box, carrying eyes. to hold the lower parallel branches of said wire loop against said bottom plate, and a trigger arrangement of flat wire attached at one end to'the upper part of the inner end wall of said box, above said plate, a knee formedof said-flat it in depressed? position with the upper branches of the wire loop tensioned against the lower branches thereof, and a handle formed on said flat wire extending outof said box: for pulling the knee tofdisengageit from said'platetoexpandsaid wire loop and project the-outer end'rof said:

plate upwardly for catapulting the obj ectson the seat thereon towards the target.

Signed at New York, in the-county of New York, and state of New York, this 11thday of October, A. D. 1930'. 1

i FRAN-K' ZIPPI wire intermediate the endsthereofnormally en gaging said plate to hold partoutwardly.

PETER HoRNL I

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